Defining Community Engagement and Outreach

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1. Capacity Building:Supporting the development of skills and resources that enable an individual, organization, or community to achieve their goals more effectively and efficiently, so they can take on new, greater, or more complicated endeavors. Examples: providing civic education workshops for the community, offering facilitation and communication training for staff, developing fundraising training for Friends groups, helping Friends groups plan a meeting, and supporting staff in planning their own meetings. “Then, you can build on this initial relationship to build responsive services by more engagement and collaboration with that community.” The Skills for Community-Centered Libraries trainings are focusing on increasing staff capacity to do community engagement, since many have been doing very successful outreach for a long time. From what we have learned from Katie O'Dell, director of programming and outreach, it sounds like Multnomah County Library has a similar expertise in outreach.

   In Communities and ecosystems

2. Capacity Building:Supporting the development of skills and resources that enable an individual, organization, or community to achieve their goals more effectively and efficiently, so they can take on new, greater, or more complicated endeavors. Examples: providing civic education workshops for the community, offering facilitation and communication training for staff, developing fundraising training for Friends groups, helping Friends groups plan a meeting, and supporting staff in planning their own meetings. “We see outreach activities as useful tools in ‘entering’ a community and getting to know them.” The Skills for Community-Centered Libraries trainings are focusing on increasing staff capacity to do community engagement, since many have been doing very successful outreach for a long time. From what we have learned from Katie O'Dell, director of programming and outreach, it sounds like Multnomah County Library has a similar expertise in outreach.

   In Community participation and contribution